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What's difference between "Free" and "inactive"
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<blockquote data-quote="farmcock" data-source="post: 389037" data-attributes="member: 15113"><p>when it comes to memory (RAM)? I have an Intel iMac (early 2006) and I just loaded on a 1gb stick of RAM over the weekend to put me up to 1.5gb. There seems to be a little improvement in response, but not enough to go WoW over. It will load quite a few more programs, though, without slowing down.</p><p></p><p>One thing I've noticed is that a lot of memory seems to be classified as "inactive". Right now I only have open "Mail", "iTunes" and Safari. I have 590mb "free" and 610 "inactive". Yesterday i crunched a movie with MediaFork and even after it finished, i only had like 7mb free memory until i rebooted at which time I had 1.16gb "free". Can someone explain this to me?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmcock, post: 389037, member: 15113"] when it comes to memory (RAM)? I have an Intel iMac (early 2006) and I just loaded on a 1gb stick of RAM over the weekend to put me up to 1.5gb. There seems to be a little improvement in response, but not enough to go WoW over. It will load quite a few more programs, though, without slowing down. One thing I've noticed is that a lot of memory seems to be classified as "inactive". Right now I only have open "Mail", "iTunes" and Safari. I have 590mb "free" and 610 "inactive". Yesterday i crunched a movie with MediaFork and even after it finished, i only had like 7mb free memory until i rebooted at which time I had 1.16gb "free". Can someone explain this to me? [/QUOTE]
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